Quasistatic Contact Problems in Viscoelasticity and Viscoplasticity

This book introduces readers to a mathematical theory of contact problems involving deformable bodies. It covers mechanical modeling, mathematical formulations, variational analysis, and the numerical solution of the associated formulations. The authors give a complete treatment of some contact problems by presenting arguments and results in modeling, analysis, and numerical simulations. Variational analysis of the models includes existence and uniqueness results of weak solutions,
as well as results of continuous dependence of the solution on the data and parameters. Also discussed are links between different mechanical models.